Make Escher cookies with George Hart's 3D printed rollers

His recent joint project with Robert Hanson of Towson University, is converting images of frieze patterns and tessellations for example, from M.C. Escher, into 3D-printed rollers for shaping custom-designed cookies.

The rollers can be produced on a desktop 3D printer - Hart printed them in ABS plastic on a Makerbot Replicator. You can simply just roll the roller over your cookie dough before baking. The 3D printed rollers can also be used by ceramicists to apply repeating patterns in their work.

Below are some sugar cookies based on tessellation patterns of M.C. Escher.

(Images credit: George Hart)

The 3D files are made freely available, so anyone can download them and 3D-print rollers for their own favorite frieze patterns.